RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

6 people.

A lot for such a wishy washy slot I would have thought.

But but but, RT knew that it was being mis-reported. He knew the deal NK had agreed with RTE - which was designed to give the appearance that his income had been cut.

He lied about the extent and percentage of the pay cuts. Does the percentage include these under the counter payments? No.

He lies by omission (not correcting the reported figure) and by commission (below):

Speaking in 2019 he said: “I’ve taken a pay cut before. I took over 30% the last time and they’ve asked for more again which will bring it up to about 45% or (so) since I took the Late Late Show.

Turbidy is at fault here. This is what he said in his statement. So if he doesn't think that he is lying.

RTE is also at fault. By Tubridy colluded in this.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/ryan-tubridy-previously-spoke-taking-30305048

How can an organzation such as RTE not know what their top earner is earning?

They had the wizard ex Dunnes stores finance director at the wheel as CFO.

How could people not be aware what thier "stars" get paid?

RT fooled them all ?

Indeed. This debacle has shown that RT and his trusted advisor NK havent a scintilla of a scruple between them. Not only are they out to get as much money out of the tax payer as they can conceivably manage, they will happily give that tax payer the two fingers when they've been caught out.

I wouldn't expect anything else from an agent, no morality in business and all that, but the fact that Tubridy himself, self style Irish Dalai Lama, signed off on that statement proves that he's as grubby as they come. And of course, lets not forget that we now know the shít hit the fan in early March. Forbes informed RT/NK and a lovely farewell bash was planned so he could exit the stage to applause instead of rotten eggs.

I don't think Christ himself would have a go resurrecting Tubridy at this stage.

IF you're looking at his base salary the statements are true.

RTE should have disclosed earnings from the separate operate gigs that THEY created to increase his income.

You have thrown out a lot of buzz words there, but thus far they are only buzzwords as there is no legal weight to them.

False accounting? It can be spun as creative accounting all done to get payments which those involved were contractually entitled to.

Misuse of Public Funds? - can be spun as ‘Corporate Hospitality’ . Nothing really earth shattering that those involved with sponsors get match tickets dinners etc . Happens in every corporate industry.

Concealment from board and public - is in itself not illegal

Conspiracy to defraud? - There has been no clear case of illegal self enrichment

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The only things RTE thus far has been guilty of is lack of oversight lack of corporate governance, and a culture of ‘them and us’ v rank and file and execs. Which all lead to a breach of trust, and extremely poor optics. Particularly with the public.

To throw out the buzz words you throw out are nothing more than ‘pubtalk’ at best.

PAC is a toothless tiger - I don’t think anything will come if it.

Imagine only one former government minister was questioning the board yesterday - all others enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame.

not one question made me any wiser than I was beforehand.

the PAC is just for the optics - it’s high time our public representatives pay and their abuse of their expense accounts are investigated.

sone of them yesterday were like Poncias Pilate

absolutely pathetic waste of time

I agree, and out of him, Noel Kelly and Dee Forbes, Tubridy would probably be the only one who would agree to appear at the PAC. He didn't arrange the details of the deal, didn't deal with the barter account, didn't deal with the invoices. He got paid the extra money through NK, and it was NK who was involved in the invoicing with RTE & the barter account.

That said, the big questions to Tubridy would be about why RTE had to try get more money for Tubridy and arrange special deals. Was he threatening to not sign a new contract unless he got more money? As the deal with Renault was for public appearances and he was no longer doing those appearances, where did he think the extra money was still coming from? When was he made aware of the audit and was it a factor in him quitting TLLS?

That would be a PAC worth watching!

At the root of this sh1tshow, is that RT started to believe his own publicity, all the "Toyman" and whatnot cr*p. Big mistake, and it's brought down bigger fish than him in the past

Sure Tubridy himself admits he should have said something.

And the viewing public response is. I'll repeat it again. I never want to hear or see this amoral <insert word of choice> on TV or radio again.

*flicks page*

His career was his reputation. He destroyed it in this grubby little stroke. He lost the room (colleagues), he lost the country.

FFS, most of the words I threw out have been thrown out by others related to this case and in the PAC.

There is nothing wrong with corporative hospitality. But when you bring along your spouse, that's where the problem starts.

Putting a false declaration on an invoice for 150k for services that were never delivered, is fraud in the view of not only myself, but numerous others, including the current CFO of RTE.

There is a difference between creative accounting and making a blatantly false declaration to auditors, cfos, the board and the public.

Concealment is not a crime unless you conceal a fraud which is a crime.

As for the level of pubtalk, I've seen no evidence you've decided to rise above that level yourself.